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Saxophone Colossus
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Release · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Album
- Artist
- Sonny Rollins
- First released
- 1957-04-27
cool jazzhard bopjazz
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- 754,340
- Total plays
- 7,835,212
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Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (September 7, 1930 – May 25, 2026) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. In a seven-decade career, Rollins recorded more than sixty albums as a leader. His 1956 album Saxophone Colossus was selected for preservation by the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2016. A number of his compositions, including "St. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sonny+Rollins
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- album
- Genre
- hard bop
- Producer
- Bob Weinstock
- Performer
- Sonny Rollins
- Record label
- Prestige
- Distribution format
- LP record
Show 5 more facts
- publication date
- 1956-00-00
- place of publication
- United States
- form of creative work
- studio album
- title
- Saxophone Colossus
- number of parts of this work
- 5
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